Missouri Compromise
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The Missouri Compromise was federal legislation of the United States that balanced the desires of northern states to prevent the expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to ex
President James Monroe, who signed the Missouri Compromise
Thomas Jefferson: The Missouri crisis roused Thomas Jefferson "like a fire bell in the night".
Rufus King, the last of the Federalist icons
Diagram of the Old Senate Chamber
Rufus King
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Rufus King was an American Founding Father, lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He was a delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress and the Philadelphia Convention and was one of the signer
Portrait by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1820
King's 1825 nomination to be minister to Great Britain
Oil painting of King by Charles Willson Peale (1818)
Statue of King in his Jamaica, Queens, library